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Literature is the Power of influenceThe quest to discover a definition for “literature” is a road that much travelled around everywhere. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. In addition, literature is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works. In fact, the only thing that is certain about literature is that the definition will change as we walk around and look around, the concept of literature will change over time as well.

I asked myself “why do we need to read literature?” Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But literature is more important than just a historical or cultural artifact. Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. We learn about books and literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even grow and evolve through our literary journey with books.

Generally, most people have their own ideas of what literature is. When enrolling in a literary course at university, you expect that everything on the reading list will be “literature”. Similarly, you might expect everything by a known author to be literature, even though the quality of that author's work may different from publication to publication. Perhaps you get an idea just from looking at the cover design on a book whether it is “literary” or “pulp”. Literature then, is a form of demarcation, however fuzzy, based on the premise that all texts are not created equal. Some have or are given more value than others

Most people go into the question of “what is literature” go into how literature works with the reader, rather than how the author set about writing it. It is the reception, rather than the writing, which is the object of enquiry. Largely, what we call “literature” is often a subjective value judgment, and naturally, value judgments, like literary tastes, will change

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